small-time

Word family adjectivesmallishsmall-mindedsmall-scalesmall-timesmall-townsmallnounsmallnesssmallholdersmallholdingsmallmouthsmallpoxsmall printsmallsatsmall screensmall talk

ˈsmall-time adjectiveadj

small-time crook/gangster etc UNIMPORTANTa criminal who is not involved in large or serious crimes 小骗子/小流氓等

Examples from the Corpus

small-time crook/gangster etc• The crows meanwhile have taken on another persona of small-time crooks.

—small-timer noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

small-time• Robert Burke, a Hartley regular, is Bill McCabe, a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl.• It was either small-time crookery or the docks, and I thought, well, the crookery's better, really.• a small-time drug dealer• It was not an astonishing one, in the context of a small-time drugs network.• Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure.• Even small-time investors can place their money in venture capital funds traded on Wall Street.• The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.• Most of Jenkins' articles were about small-time police corruption.• What we are is a nation of small-time sinners, which is not per se unusual nor even particularly bad.• With the rise of the bond markets, the equity salesmen and traders had been reduced by comparison to small-time toll takers.

词汇	small-time
释义	small-time Word family adjectivesmallishsmall-mindedsmall-scalesmall-timesmall-townsmallnounsmallnesssmallholdersmallholdingsmallmouthsmallpoxsmall printsmallsatsmall screensmall talk ˈsmall-time adjectiveadj small-time crook/gangster etc UNIMPORTANTa criminal who is not involved in large or serious crimes 小骗子/小流氓等 Examples from the Corpus small-time crook/gangster etc• The crows meanwhile have taken on another persona of small-time crooks. —small-timer noun [countableC] Examples from the Corpus small-time• Robert Burke, a Hartley regular, is Bill McCabe, a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl.• It was either small-time crookery or the docks, and I thought, well, the crookery's better, really.• a small-time drug dealer• It was not an astonishing one, in the context of a small-time drugs network.• Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure.• Even small-time investors can place their money in venture capital funds traded on Wall Street.• The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.• Most of Jenkins' articles were about small-time police corruption.• What we are is a nation of small-time sinners, which is not per se unusual nor even particularly bad.• With the rise of the bond markets, the equity salesmen and traders had been reduced by comparison to small-time toll takers.
随便看	on the tiles on the tip of tongue on the tip of your tongue on the town on the track of on the track of sb on the track of somebody on the track of something on the track of sth on the trail of on the trail of sb on the trail of somebody on the trail of something on the trail of sth on the trot on the turn on the understanding that on the up on the up and up on the verge of on the verge of something on the verge of sth on the wane on the warpath on the way